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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
So, my boss was out looking at some places yesterday and he tells me about one I should check out. It's a very nice piece of land about 11,000 square feet just outside the town of Osoyoos with a walkout basement and a Lake view. Directly below you is a vinyard so you'll always have a nice look at the lake and due to where it is the taxes are about 70% of what a similar place inside the town would be. Still it's maybe 2km from the main drag in town so it's not out of the way at all. The house is about 30 years old and has been completely re-done and the guy has done a very nice job, the work looks good, it's not some amateur hacks weekend project. Didn't cheap out either, higher end wood, granite, good tile etc for finishing. The place seems to be priced very well given the market here.
The catch....someone was shot in the house about 25 years ago. A party with a bunch of teen agers drinking and one gets the idea to start playing with a gun. Surprise, surprise someone ends up getting shot there apparently by accident and eventually died.
Question is, do you take the approach that this was a freak event that happened 20+ years ago and that the value on this place is too good. Or are you scared of ghosts or whatever and say I don't care if they give it to me, I want nothing to do with it. Me, I'd buy it land like this is in scarce supply here and it's a fantastic spot. My wife...she says never living somewhere that someone has died.
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I'd buy it if it happened two months ago, as long as it's all cleaned up...
I am not superstitious. I would just tell the neighbours I didn't know about it, because otherwise they might think I was creepy for not caring... Why are people so hung up with the death of someone they didn't even know. I grant you, I might feel differently if it was a person known to me, or if it was some particularly grisly crime with details out in public.